I just realized I forgot to put a mention in here of our fellow miscreant "cave" who came through in a pinch when he IM'd me that he had a Kawai K5000W available at a ripping decent price. Cosmetically it should be in the yard of Sanford & Son, but electronically, it is perfect. Thank you, cave, you...

Yes, the X-Stations charge their own batteries, and there is even a system setting for it. You can choose no charging, medium charging only when on mains, low charging when on USB, or medium charging when on USB. One of the display pages also shows what voltage and current the batteries are providin...

Thanks, cgren72, I will look into that. I just wish the Poly-800 would recharge its own cells as the X-Station does. I am sure now that the sound problem was due to lack of use and the memory structure decaying. Yes, going from RCA sockets to 1/8" sockets can be a hassle. I have adapters lying about...

Thanks for taking the time. I was writing about the RCA jacks on my USB audio/MIDI adapter. I have cables with RCA male on one end and 1/4" male on the other. Then, I just (fortunately) bought 1/4" female to 1/8" male mono adapters. Those went into a 2-to-1 1/8" adapter which went into the From tape...

I haven't touched my Korg Poly-800 in several weeks. It was not connected to the mains nor were there any C cells in the reservoir. Having no C's to use (or rather being too lazy to get the rechargeable C's out of my X-Station 49) I connected a 9V adapter from another synthesizer. Only a second too ...

X/Y/Z have different number ranges. An assigned function can have three different values, depending on whether you assign it to X, Y, or Z. Also, any discrepancies have been corrected. The chart is as complete as it can ever be. Pity there isn't a controller out there that can handle negative values...

Fader, forgive me for I have sined. It has been seven days since my last compression.

I just acquired a Casio FZ-1 that needs some minor work but is otherwise in great shape. The previous owner included one copy floppy disk which, unfortunately, stops loading at cylinder 45. I am looking for copies or images of the original sound floppies FL-A and FL-B that came with the keyboard. If...

This link is a must-have for everyone who inhabits this joint more than once a month. I thought of putting this in Off-topic, but it's so close to the matter of preserving our dearly beloved machines that it belongs here, where the hardware roams free. The Synth Builder's Prayer [/font][/size]

Get a Kurzweil 150. Two-hundred forty oscillators. One monophonic quarter inch output jack. What's not to love? Additive of the gods. Of course, you'll need an Apple ][gs to use the programming software (available for download from Kurzweil's web site.) Or you could write your own, which I am going ...

P.S. Dear VSE ... Is there anything I can do to make it up to you? Oh I don't know AG, you stepped way over the line there. I hope you're being ironic. If you were serious, then you resent AG for his mildly sarcastic response to PD's character assassination. I only know AG from his videos, and he s...

If you don't want subtractive, or, at least, not so much nor a majority of subtractive, there are the following: Hartmann Neuron Kurzweil 150 Kawai K5 & K5m Kawai K5000s/w/r Technics SX-WSA1 and WSA1R Casio FZ-1, FZ-10m and FZ-20m Oxford OSCar and GForce ImpOSCar Seiko DS-250 and DS-310 Native Instr...

Then there's spiral synthesis, as described in this very interesting article by Tracy Lind Petersen, which treats sound as a helix traveling through time, four dimensional in nature.

Is the sampler in the Korg Triton Rack equivalent, in audio quality at least, to the E-mu E4X Turbo? I have the Korg and I have my eye on an E-mu. There's also an E-mu E4 Platinum, but that's a bit out of my budget, for now. Why do these things always become available when they are not obtainable? ...

Is the sampler in the Korg Triton Rack equivalent, in audio quality at least, to the E-mu E4X Turbo? I have the Korg and I have my eye on an E-mu. There's also an E-mu E4 Platinum, but that's a bit out of my budget, for now. Why do these things always become available when they are not obtainable? I...